Events

Peter Schramm

September 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM

Ashbrook Center at Ashland University

“The Constitutional Character of Benjamin Franklin”

Peter W. Schramm is a Senior Fellow, Director of the Ashbrook Scholar Program at the

Professor Peter W. Schramm

Ashbrook Center and a Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. Prior to his work at Ashland, he served in the Reagan Administration as the Director of the Center for International Education in the United States Department of Education. Before entering government service, Dr. Schramm was the President of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, in Claremont, California.

Dr. Schramm earned his Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School in 1980. He holds two Master of Arts degrees, one from Claremont in Government and the other in International History from The London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London.

Dr. Schramm has edited, co-edited, and contributed to a number of books, including, Natural Right and Political Right,The 1984 Election and the Future of American Politics, Lessons of the Bush Defeat, American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, Consequences of the Clinton Victory, Separationof Powers and Good Government, Statecraft and Power, History of American Political Thought, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution and wrote the Introduction to Lord Charnwood’s Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Madison Books, 1996).